Early into the marketing for Guerrilla Games' Horizon Forbidden West, one major focus was how much more capable Aloy was of exploring her environment. Its predecessor Horizon Zero Dawn featured a solid open world, but one with fairly restrictive exploration. Forbidden West promised new means of traversal like swimming off the coast of San Francisco's post-apocalyptic ruins and flying atop Pterodactyl-styled machines called Sunwings. Most notably, Forbidden West seemed to take cues from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by offering Aloy a glider.